Ellie's new favorite words: WOW and WOAH!! Guess she gets that one from me!
Favorite moments: 6:30AM - she says DADA DADA DADA! Biggest grin ever...yes, that's how she woke up!
Another favorite: Screaming at the top of her lungs as she banged her spoon around during dinner (a happy scream, not an angry one...) Videos below...
Another favorite: she laughed and laughed and laughed as she watched Clara run around the house like a crazy dog one afternoon. Everytime Clara passed Ellie, she'd giggle again!
And lastly, we joined our friends Yasmin, Patrick, and their daughter Marissa at Porterville's Christmas parade. We got there nice and early and Ellie enjoyed seeing the crowds of people and some of the Christmas lights around the street. But when the parade started, Ellie was fast asleep! (Of course she was!) We left the parade about halfway through, and as soon as we got to the car, Ellie woke up... So funny :)
Skill of the week: opening cabinets in the kitchen and pulling out their contents.... the safety locks went on this week...
I think she looks like an orphan from Annie... It's a Hard Knock Life For Us.... she's wiping the floor with a shirt from the laundry pile...
Christmas Parade! Kinda a neat way to show us... seemed festive?
Today, Ellie got her flu shot, so while we were in Exeter, we decided to explore around for a little while. We found a flower shop that sold Melissa and Doug toys - and we found this shopping cart - Ellie adored it...too bad it cost $70 (!!!) or I would have thought about getting it for her! This picture reminds me of our shopping experience at Target earlier this week - Ellie no longer likes to sit facing forward...since birth, she's always wanted to see everything around her, and the grocery store is no exception. She kept twisting her body to look behind her, and sometimes she would get so excited about something she saw that she would STAND UP in the shopping cart (or attempt to at least) (!) Kinda scary... I told Jeremiah that I'll wait for him to go grocery shopping now!
Below: The funniest videos yet...
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